Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 lawyers are recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, with ten receiving this honor for the first time. Additionally, 22 Hinshaw lawyers are included in The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 75 of the firm's lawyers have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. In addition, 30 Hinshaw lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 73 of the firm's lawyers have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. In addition, 28 Hinshaw lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

Working with our U.K. alliance partners, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP (RPC), we are pleased to provide a series of 'informal web chats' with the title "Tales from Covid: Insurance in the Time of Coronavirus."

Hinshaw's Scott Seaman, Peter Kanaris, and Ed Lenci will participate in panel discussions at the ARIAS 2021 Spring Conference. Seaman and Kanaris' presentation, titled "Ripped From the Headlines - Insurance and Reinsurance Issues in Current Events," will occur on May 7, 2021. It will focus on liability, coverage, and reinsurance issues related to several major, recent matters: mass shootings, strikes, riots, and civil commotion, and the recent Southwest freeze.

The first COVID-19-related insurance coverage cases are now being filed. In Louisiana, a declaratory judgment action was brought against Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, asking the court to rule that an all-risk policy provides coverage to the Oceana Gill restaurant for losses resulting from the Louisiana governor's March 13, 2020 proclamation banning gatherings of 250 or more people in a single space, as well as restrictions implemented by the New Orleans mayor requiring restaurants to cease operations at 9 p.m. and limit seating capacity to 50%. The complaint alleges that the policy at issue "does not provide any exclusion due to losses, business or property, from a virus or global pandemic," and that it "only excluded losses due to biological materials such as pathogens in connection with terrorism or malicious use, therefore providing coverage to [sic] other viruses or global pandemics."

As the coronavirus, COVID-19, continues to spread, organizations around the globe are facing mounting business disruptions and economic losses. Some of these entities may seek coverage for these losses under a variety of insurance policies. Coverage under any form will depend, of course, on the facts of the claim, policy wordings, and the applicable law. Here, we highlight some policy wordings insurers should keep in mind when evaluating coronavirus-related claims under various coverage forms.

Notwithstanding the wide array of cyber specific insurance products available in the market, policyholders have and will continue to look for coverage for cyber, data breach, and privacy claims under commercial general liability and first-party property policies when confronted with a claim or suit. Policyholders face numerous hurdles in obtaining coverage under these policies, which often do not apply at all or provide only limited coverage for such claims. See generally, S. Seaman & J. Schulze Allocation of Losses in Complex Insurance Coverage Claims (Thomson Reuters 8th Ed. 2019-2020) at Chapter 17 "Cyber and Data Breach Claims."